growing outrage in tennessee one of the ousted lawmaker s justin jones joins me live wit his former boss congresswoma barbara lee. vice president harris speaks out. they understood the importance, these three of standing to say that peopl will not be silenced donald trump s pinch. jack smith is about to get his most important witness in th january six insurrection yet former vice president mike pence. i m jonathan, this is th saturday show. a house divided against itself cannot stand the focus of abraham lincoln s 1850 speech was slavery and th most in the minority of mostly southern white wealthy lan owning men who wanted to maintain it. in this democracy. the same men would start and lose a war to keep that evil institution. but more than two centurie later, the fury of that battle still smolders the tennessee three face expulsion votes this week, following a protest in the state house chamber demandin stricter gun safety measures after a mass shooting at a national ele
the uk s prime minister, rishi sunak, is flying to san diego for talks on defence with the us and australian leaders. it s understood they ll discuss ways of dealing with any security threats posed by china in the asia pacific region at the meeting of the aukus group. coming up is sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday here on bbc news. ireland are on for the grand slam in the six nations, overpowering scotland at murrayfield. another test passed with flying colours for arsenal, who restore the five point advantage at the top with victory at fulham. and england collapse in bangladesh the hosts taking the t20 series with a match to spare. also coming up on sportsday. cameron norrie s in third round action as the brits march on at indian wells. and the chase is on can tommy fleetwood catch the leaders at the players in florida, the pga s flagship event? set hello there. will come along to sportsday on bbc news. ireland proved just why they re the world s number one ranke
Its tuesday, october the 24th. Our main story. Two israeli women, who were taken from their homes more than two weeks ago, have been released from captivity. Yocheved lifshitz and nurit cooper were among more than 200 people abducted by hamas fighters in the attacks of october 7th, and brought to gaza. Hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Group by the uk, said the release was for humanitarian reasons. The women, whose husbands are still being held, were handed over at the rafah Border Crossing between gaza and egypt at around 10 oclock local time last night. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell has the details. Freed after more than two weeks in captivity. In a video released by hamas, nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz were handed over to representatives of the International Committee of the red cross. Not before 85 year old Yocheved Lifshitz turns to a masked hamas gunman, shakes his hand and says, shalom, hebrew for peace. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Group by many weste
welcome along to the programme. it was a pivotal night of action in the european champions league and we ll start in paris, where newcastle united back in the competition after 20 years needed to avoid losing to p56 to keep their hopes alive. for most of the match, they were winning, until a stoppage time penalty from kylian mbappe levelled the tie. bbc football correspondent john murray has more. newcastle were a matter of seconds away from completing what would have been a memorable double over the french champions. what adds to their agony is the way the equaliser was conceded, a penalty awarded by var when the ball bounced up onto the unfortunate livramento arm off his body. kylian mbappe stepped up to take the penalty and shot in above the dive of nick pope. the newcastle goalkeeper in his team mates had performed wonders to that point to keep out mbapp and co. it had been a textbook away performance in europe as newcastle snatched the lead in the first half hour. wh